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On Wednesday: Citizens, Bears and Butterflies

Oleg Chernous / stanmus.ru

Citizen Four (2015): If you haven't seen your Moscow neighbor yet, there's another chance to catch him on the screen, when a reporter and documentary film maker travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. In English. 35MM. 47/24 Ulitsa Pokrovka. Metro Krasniye Vorota, Kurskaya. 495-780-9142. At 10:10 p.m.

Svetlana Berezhnaya (organ): performs Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Reger, Grieg and others. St. Mary's Cathedral. 27/13 Malaya Gruzinskaya Ulitsa. Metro Barrikadnaya, Ulitsa 1905 Goda. 495-252-4051. At 8 p.m.

Afterplay (Posle Zanavesa): Yegeny Kamenkovich stages Anton Chekov's one-act comedy "The Bear" and "Afterplay," Brien Friel's play that imagines a romantic meeting between Andreid Prozorov of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" and Sonya Serebryakova of "Uncle Vanya" in the Soviet era. Fomenko Workshop Theater. 30/32 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-249-1921/1740. At 7 p.m.

Madame Butterfly: Puccini's opera, staged by Lyudmila Nalyotova. Performed in Italian. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. 17 Bolshaya Dmitrovka. Metro Tverskaya, Chekhovskaya. 495-723-7325. At 7 p.m.

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